Word: matronly
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...came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved. And they had not reckoned with Oppenheim's suave agility in leading his knaves through smooth intricacies to their just desserts...
...Knapp, a grey-haired matron of considerable bearing, resigned her post as Dean of the College of Home Economics at Syracuse University "until such time as my good name is cleared before the world." The Albany district attorney decided that the Governor's investigator's findings should be waived, dropped, forgotten. The findings, which he called "fantastic," charged that Mrs. Knapp, in administering a $1,200,000 census fund, had given sinecures to her relatives, forged endorsements on checks, falsified her expense accounts, obtained false certifications from a notary public, mishandled some...
Irritation. Lieut. Maitland told of Col. Lindbergh's entertainment at a Long Island country club. "A plump matron rushed across the room to his table, flung her arms about his neck and kissed...
Unfair newspapers headlined "Vote Slacker" when Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, suffragette and political matron, announced that she had never voted and never would until U. S. women should "place in the field" a Presidential candidate. Mrs. Belmont did not say whether or not the candidate would have to be a woman...
...previously obscure persons who rose to merited fame and prominence by excellence in such arts as calling pigs and eating pan cakes. What seems to be the most recent addition to the number of domestic accomplishments by which glory may be achieved is that of husband-calling. A worthy matron from somewhere west of Boston has recently reached the limelight through her ability to enunciate, with whatever inflection of firmness of fervency is appropriate, the word "Albert...